Business Analyst

Cushman & Wakefield • Full-time • Chicago, Illinois, United States of America • 3w ago

Job Title

Business Analyst

Job Description Summary

The Business Analyst is a full-service technology resource for the GOS Analytics platform. The main focus of this position is to identify solutions, streamline processes, and assist with creating requirements to build out and enhance the analytics platforms. This position is expected to lead large, complex projects – including process mapping, exploring and articulating business problems and with solution architects turn these into technical solutions, author recommendations and present to stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsible for one or more of the following:

Understanding our business - Demonstrate familiarity of services provided and customers served throughout the analytics platform

Solutioning - Document requirements and assist in analyzing and reviewing potential solutions

Project Delivery - Contribute as an active and positive member on project teams to deliver or exceed project outcomes

Improvement & Innovation - Constantly look for ways to improve the way we work and the solutions we offer to our business and our clients

Data Analysis - Assist in scoping and mapping of various data migration efforts, identify data required to support business requirements, understand how data is impacted/influenced by business processes/operations

Conduct Workshops - Periodically conduct workshops related to process improvement, User Acceptance Testing and training sessions

DETAILED ACCOUNTABILITIES

Work with various levels of the organization to capture project goals, objectives, and the associated requirements.

Provide implementation assistance for medium to highly complexenhancements, often containing multiple stakeholder groups or work streams

Identify project stakeholders and user groups. Engage with the stakeholders to identify subject matter experts and plan change management for project roll out

Primary focus will be working on the development of data and dashboards, and a focus on business process standardization with the Team. You will work closely with cross functional team members to drive business strategy and process optimization, capture user requirements, and assist the development team in designing, testing, and implementing platform.

Collaborate with the team to assess the cross functional impacts of business decisions and provide input on processes and procedures affecting the business users

Partner with the user community, to identify their business requirements; analyze business processes; analyze source data; produce functional specifications, data flows and business rules; and assist with the implementation of those specifications

Help drive process improvements; leverage your knowledge of best practices to help our professional services organization utilize the platforms to maximize results

Drive the initiation, planning, requirements, design, test and post-production phases of the solution development life cycle

Develop, document and perform system, integration, and user acceptance tests

Serve as point of contact for troubleshooting issues and coordinating with cross-functional teams

Coordinate technical assistance between Cushman & Wakefield & the application vendor

Coordinate change management initiatives of upgrades and patches. Develop and implement testing plans, interfacing results with the vendor for a quality release

Perform regular system monitoring to ensure data integrity and support internal and external operational audits

Write, maintain, and support a variety of queries and reports including ad hoc requests

Remain educated and up-to-date with current technologies, solutions, trends and risks

Assist with mentoring and/or training of staff

JOB REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Previous Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree or Professional Industry Designation

7+ years of relevant experience in commercial real estate, Data & Analytics, and visualization software, preferably PowerBI

5+ years of IT work experience

5+ years of experience supporting application systems

Or similar combination of education and experience

Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

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